Family Corner

Malayalam Movies and Christian Families

Sanjose A Thomas Modern era is of media activism and a long time involvement of almost all people, men and women, children and the aged in different platforms of social media with an unending list of social media outlets ranging from WhatsApp to FB and from Instagram to an unending series of social networking sites […]

Why Do They Still Live Amongst Us

A recent discussion about a book, a novel, with Mahatma Gandhi’s eldest son as the protagonist, set me thinking on why we are so fascinated by the behaviour and stories of some people, either from history or from legends or from myths or even from old works of fiction. We keep revisiting them, whether it […]

The Double Within

Agnes S. Thomas “It is easy to find truth, though it is hard to face it, and harder still to follow it” – Bishop Fulton J. Sheen. There was a time in my life I spent a lot of time doing community-building activities with families young and old. Alex and Mary were one of them. […]

Understanding the Gender Dimension of Christian Family

Sanjose Thomas The word ‘gender’ is one of the most understood and misunderstood words ever identified by man and many often this term is used with multiple connotations and in multiple contexts. Gender refers to a social construct built upon the sexual identity of human beings and when sexuality has a biological basis gender has […]

Words give Life and Kill Toronto

Agnes S. Thomas “Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless” Mother Teresa How do the words I choose in conversation reflect who I am? Why do words matter? New Year’s is an excellent time to review past choices, begin new habits and start fresh. As we enter […]

The Mischievous Mahatma

Prema Jayakumar ‘Generations to come will scarcely believe that such a one as this ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth.’ That was Albert Einstein on Mahatma Gandhi. It is usual to quote what various people said about Mahatma Gandhi around this time as it is to wash the his statues and make […]

Christian Families in the Digital Age – Redefining it’s Social Dimension

Sanjose A Thomas Family is the basic unit of a society and it can be a rightly argued that without families there can be no human society. Mankind right from its inception had some form of arrangement which ensured the communion of men and women and towards its gradual march towards modernity we designated that […]

Words give Life and Kill

Agnes S. Thomas, PhD “Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless” Mother Teresa How do the words I choose in conversation reflect who I am? Why do words matter? New Year’s is an excellent time to review past choices, begin new habits and start fresh. As we […]

Indian bishops slam terror attack on tourists in India’s Kashmir

No action taken against police who assaulted Catholic priests in India